Fleischer also has had a dalliance with comic book films. He was on the short list to replace Edgar Wright on Ant-Man before Marvel settled on Peyton Reed. Fleischer made his mark with the inventive Zombieland, but as of late has been directing television shows like Santa Clarita Diet and Superstore.

This shows that Sony is willing to take the bump that surely will come after Spider-Man: Homecoming and run with it to make the shared universe it always wanted. However, the appeal of the Venom character is his connection to Peter Parker/Spider-Man. Eddie Brock hates Peter Parker, which makes him the perfect host for the alien symbiote after Parker rejects it. I don’t know where this origin will fit in in the latest reboot. Brock doesn’t seem to be Homecoming. Perhaps the alien symbiote will be introduced in Avengers: Infinity War?

William is cursed with the shared love of comic books and of films. Luckily, this is a great time for him to be alive. His writing has been featured on Broken Frontier.com, PopMatters.com and in Comics Foundry magazine.